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Post by Jessica Butcher on Jul 24, 2014 16:45:11 GMT
"Not yet" she said. "But I'm sure he wants something, Earth currency has a terrible turnover rate." Jessica pulled out the number of the back and handed it to Marcela. "Keep him talking long enough for us to find an entry point."
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Post by Marcela Ibanez on Jul 24, 2014 18:45:16 GMT
It took Marcela a few seconds to realize she was the one assigned to handle the negotiation. She bit her lip a bit, negotiating with aliens was a tad different from human gang members, different culture, syntax, body language etc.
"I'll do it, any advice on how to approach the situation? Don't think we want to make this guy consider us a threat yet"
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Post by Jessica Butcher on Jul 25, 2014 2:19:14 GMT
"We don't" Jessica said. "Try to keep him calm, try to get him to trust you, and listen to his demands carefully. Let's hope we can get as many as possible out..."
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Post by Arianna Rossini on Jul 25, 2014 3:00:28 GMT
"If you want me to take him out, trigger word is "Christmas"." Arianna said through the License, lining her shot up again.
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Post by Jessica Butcher on Jul 25, 2014 3:37:59 GMT
"As soon as we get a good shot."
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Post by Marcela Ibanez on Jul 25, 2014 4:45:41 GMT
"Okay, right, I'm ready to go" said Marcela, putting her trust in a team she had barely become acquainted with, and was uncertain if she could trust, against some lizard monster from outer space. A normal person would call this absurd, but in the end you could say they lived in absurd times. Besides, she and the others were recruited by SPD for a reason, time to earn the badge.
Marcela considered morphing before heading in but figured that would be unwise, would cause the alien to think she was hostile. Instead she carefully approached the building arms raised in a non-threatening gesture to signify no weapons, hopefully the alien would not consider that body language hostile.
"Sir!" She called out, hoping the translator was working "If you can hear me, I am unarmed and have no intentions of harming you. If you want to, we can talk this out!".
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Post by Arianna Rossini on Jul 25, 2014 4:51:25 GMT
"I've had a shot since 15 minutes before you rolled in, Butcher." Arianna scolded Jessica through the license.
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Post by Jessica Butcher on Jul 25, 2014 11:57:35 GMT
Jessica watched tensely as Marcela approached the doors, her knuckles white as snow. The reptilian looked out at Marcela out of the corner of his stilted yellow eye. He held a black energy weapon clutched in his claw, pointing it at the head of a man in fatigues who likely just got out of the army. He spoke, his clicking language being translated into English through the morpher.
"If you shoot, I kill hostages. If you try come in, I shoot hostages. If you try to throw me in the Null Void-" the lizard pushed the barrel harder against the soldier's head before continuing in his deep, heavily accented, chattering voice "I kill hostages. The soldier first, then the spawn."
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Post by Marcela Ibanez on Jul 25, 2014 18:12:25 GMT
"I won't come in then" She said calmly, taking note of the weapon the alien held as she tried to assuage its words.
"No one needs to get hurt today if we can talk this out. If you don't mind me asking, why are you holding up this place? No offense, but our currency here doesn't have a good exchange rate on the interstellar market".
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Post by Jessica Butcher on Jul 25, 2014 18:36:52 GMT
"I have my reasons."
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Post by Marcela Ibanez on Jul 25, 2014 18:38:01 GMT
"If it is alright with you, I'd like to hear them."
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Post by Jessica Butcher on Jul 25, 2014 18:45:23 GMT
"I think you'd rather me release people wouldn't you? Because I can arrange a few of them to be released."
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Post by Marcela Ibanez on Jul 25, 2014 19:06:21 GMT
"We can do that, but I would still like to know exactly why you are holding these people hostage", she replied. The fact he seemed to be sidestepping her questions seemed to indicate he was hiding something. All she could do was keep him talking for now.
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Post by Jessica Butcher on Jul 25, 2014 19:51:02 GMT
"I want the master key for the safe and Lock boxes. I want a ground transport capable of carrying a large number of people, and a one man ship ready for my arrival at O'Hare - no Dekas. In exchange I will release the four smaller humans and twelve females. No one enters. Enter. You have half of an hour (translated and converted into Earth time)."
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Post by Marcela Ibanez on Jul 25, 2014 20:04:49 GMT
So he was definitely after something in the bank. No idea what though.
"I'll see what I can do to arrange that. If there any hostages with serious medical issues, asthma, pregnancy, etc, if possible can you release those as well?" She said before putting the rest of the team on speaker "Did you guys catch all that?"
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